The Future of European Social Democracy

Part I. Introduction

1. Building the Good Society
Henning Meyer, Jonathan Rutherford

Part II. Social Democracy in Europe

2. Social Democratic Trajectories in Modern Europe: One or Many Families?
Stefan Berger

3. The Europeanization of Social Democracy: Politics without Policy and Policy without Politics
James Sloam, Isabelle Hertner

4. The Preconditions of Social Europe and the Tasks of Social Democracy
Stefan Collignon

Part III. A New Political Economy

5. A Decent Capitalism for a Good Society
Sebastian Dullien, Hansjörg Herr, Christian Kellermann

6. As Much Market as Possible; as Much State as Necessary
Colin Crouch

Part IV. Re-Framing Social Democracy

7. The New Language of Social Democracy
Elisabeth Wehling, George Lakoff

8. Social Democracy and Trade Unions
Dimitris Tsarouhas

9. The Greatest Happiness Principle: An Imperative for Social Democracy?
Christian Kroll

Part V. Political Futures

10. Dispossession
Jonathan Rutherford

11. The Challenge of European Social Democracy: Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism United
Henning Meyer

12. Not without a Future
Jenny Andersson

13. The National in the Network Society: UK Uncut, the English Defence League and the Challenge for Social Democracy
Ben Little, Deborah Grayson

Part VI. Conclusion

14. The Way Ahead
Henning Meyer, Jonathan Rutherford

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Economic Policy, European Politics, Political Science